[Pkg-exim4-users] multiple copies of exim4 running

[Gerard Hooton]

I have the following :

scoil:~# ps -elf |grep spam |grep -v grep 
1 S root      2212     1  0  80   0 -  7706 -      Jan11 ?        00:01:29
/usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -d
--pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid
5 S root      2575  2212  0  80   0 -  9593 -      Jan12 ?        00:05:37
spamd child
5 S root      2721  2212  0  80   0 -  9590 -      Jan11 ?        00:09:47
spamd child

scoil:~# ps -elf |grep clam   |grep -v grep 
1 S clamav    2418     1  0  80   0 - 47574 -      Jan11 ?        00:01:09
/usr/sbin/clamd
1 S clamav    2512     1  0  80   0 -   786 -      Jan11 ?        00:00:02
/usr/bin/freshclam -d --quiet

Also, I have sa-exim installed

Thanks
//Ger




"Johann Spies" <jspies at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:00:53AM +0000, Gerard Hooton wrote:
>> when I run exiwhat I get :-
>> 
>> scoil:~# exiwhat          
>>  1877 daemon: -q30m, listening for SMTP on [87.33.113.4]:25
> 
> Which shows exim is not doing much at the moment.
> 
>> When I dp ps I get :-
> 
> too many instances of the daemon especially when it is apparently not
> handling any messages.
> 
> I am not sure why but that was not ther reason for your original 'too
> many connections' message.
> 
> As far as I know exim it should kill the idle sub-processes.  
> 
> Do you use any other processes that exim may be waiting for to finish
> like virus or spam scanning?
> 
> Regards
> Johann
> 
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Gerard Hooton


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